It really depends on what you need to use them for, and the performance you expect, but since it is on a laptop, I presume your main aim is training and evaluation, so you can get away with 2Gb / 1 core each. 4gb each would show a good performance gain and if you can run them off an SSD, you will see even more (this is based on HyperV but AAUI VMWare is similar)

It really depends on what you need to use them for, and the performance you expect, but since it is on a laptop, I presume your main aim is training and evaluation, so you can get away with 2Gb / 1 core each. 4gb each would show a good performance gain and if you can run them off an SSD, you will see even more (this is based on HyperV but AAUI VMWare is similar)

Yes that is correct, it’s for training

I want to set up two servers 2012, one als domain controller the other one as Additional controller that takes over when the first one is off

I can run it on my SSD

At the moment the VMs are on my HD, but when I copy them to my SSD, which option can I use best ‘I copy them’ or ‘I move them’?

I’ll pass on that as it is VMWare, which I am not really au fait with. For 3 VMs, consider destroying them, moving the virtual drive files to the SSD and creating new ones pointing to the existing VHDs.